Sydney April Drupal Meetup: Demos

The April Sydney Drupal meetup will be dedicated to "demos". A time for Drupal geeks to crack open their laptops and show us something interesting.

We've got a varied bunch of demos this month covering theming, site building, module development and accessibility. There's something for everyone. Talks will be limited to 15 mins each, including question time.

Thanks so much to the speakers who have volunteered their time and energy.

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Summary: I'd like to submit a 15 min session on 'Responsive websites'. My session will highlight the following 3 things (plus a bonus demo at the end). It's big picture (concept and philosophy) but also a few little details to go with it. My aim is to get an offline discussion/debate later around this.

Responsive forces you to think about something (clue: content, yes, but specifically what?)

'960 is a joke in yo town'. Thinking beyond 960 pixels.

Using Zen Grids to do responsive (can be used on any CMS theme, or even static HTML sites).

Nice one. It'd be great to have a presentation for angry themers after last months performance fest :) So this sounds really good. I'm digging the big picture stuff and am interested to hear your ideas. I think that we are about to see a renaissance of the web what with the renewed focus on content and content focussed design. My only suggestion would be to focus on the demo aspect to show how Zen Grids can help achieve those goals.

Not yet it isn't. Right now I have a bunch of slides sitting round at http://blackicemedia.com/r/hires that cover what I'm talking about, but I'm not sure that it would be feasible, let alone easy to demonstrate, especially since not everyone will have a high DPI device on hand and that sort of platform would be necessary to demonstrate that what I'm talking about actually makes a difference.

Hi David, at the moment we have 4 demos locked in and I'd say it would be a bit too tight to squeeze a Commons/WEM demo in. To do it justice, and to cover the time/effort you'd take getting here, it would be best to do it another month. Thanks for the offer - hope to see some more about WEM soon :)